Category: America

Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlets 1-9 (complete) together with The Soyuz-Apollo Project, Moscow 1975

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, Moscow, U.S. Government Printing Office, Novosti Press Agency : 1975-1977

Seller ID: 290

1970s HISTORIC PAMPHLETS FROM APOLLO-SOYUZ PROJECT (NASA) AND SOYUZ-APOLLO PROJECT (USSR), WITH SIGNED PHOTO OF COSMONAUT. Complete set of 9 (nine) 10 1/2 inches-tall Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlets, color printed paper covers, 30-75 pages each, unmarked, very good. 8 1/2 inches tall Soyuz-Apollo Project pamphlet, color printed paper covers, 32 pages, unmarked, very good; laid in 4 1/2 x 7 inch color photo of 2 Soviet Cosmonauts, signed by Cosmonaut Kubasov, dated 6 July, 76. HEAVY ITEM--INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING COSTS.
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Mortality Statistics 1918 TOGETHER WITH Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Washington AND Paris, Government Printing Office AND Masson & Cie : 1918, 1920

Seller ID: 3534

Binding: Hardcover

1918 MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR US AND FRANCE: 2 VOLUMES CHRONICLE THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. 1) Mortality Statistics 1918. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of "surplus Library of Congress duplicate" to front endpaper, no other library marks, pages age-toned, unmarked, overall very good. From the Introduction: "In the 1917 report it was pointed out that, even if no correction in the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter...
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Parke, Davis & Co. advertisement in The Apothecary and New England Druggist, March 1919

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Apothecary Publishing Co. : 1919

Seller ID: 1000

1919 PHARMACISTS' TRADE JOURNAL CONTAINING ADVERTISEMENT FOR INFLUENZA PREVENTION AND TREATMENT PRODUCTS DURING SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC. 11 inches tall journal, color printed paper covers, stapled, 52 pp (entire issue) containing on page 50 a full-page advertisement: Influenza has created a large demand for these products, picturing Influenza-Pneumonia Vaccine, Used as a preventive of influenza and the pneumonia sequela; and Pneumonia Phylacogen, Used in the treatment of influenza and the pneumonia sequela. Don't send large orders for these products. We couldn't fill them. Have a few packages on ...
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Image for United States Atomic Energy Commission: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I. Transcript of Hearing before Peronnel Security Board, and II. Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board General Manager Commissioners, together with program for a lecture by Martin J. Sherwin titled Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, February 1, 2006, at CalTech. The program is signed by David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and President of Caltech from 1997 to 2006, and panelist who discussed the historical and ethical ramifications of the creation of the atomic bomb with the lecturer. Also included is a program for an October 15, 2003 lecture by Baltimore, Viruses, Viruses, Viruses.

United States Atomic Energy Commission: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I. Transcript of Hearing before Peronnel Security Board, and II. Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board General Manager Commissioners, together with program for a lecture by Martin J. Sherwin titled Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, February 1, 2006, at CalTech. The program is signed by David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and President of Caltech from 1997 to 2006, and panelist who discussed the historical and ethical ramifications of the creation of the atomic bomb with the lecturer. Also included is a program for an October 15, 2003 lecture by Baltimore, Viruses, Viruses, Viruses.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: United States Government Printing Office : 1954

Seller ID: 283

1954 ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT AND TEXTS OF PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS OF THE FAMOUS US GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL SECURITY BOARD HEARING OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. Two 9 inches tall books in printed gray paper covers, the transcript 1 1/2 inches thick, the texts of documents stapled, fine--in pristine condition; together with program for a lecture by Tufts University historian Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, Feburary 1, 2006, at CalTech, signed by David Baltimore [with] program for an October 15, 2003 lecture by Baltimore, Nobel laureate and presi...
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The Scientific Study of Marihuana

By: Abel EL;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall : 1976

Seller ID: 205

1976 COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF MARIHUANA AT THE BEGINNING OF ITS POPULARITY IN AMERICA. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xviii, 299 pages, green binding, spine gilt, handstamp of Ates Tanin, [Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Toronto] on front free endpaper and edges of text, otherwise unmarked, very good; dust jacket edges rubbed, price-clipped, very good. CONTENTS: Pharmacology of Cannabis Sativa; Common Experiences Reported by Users of Marihuana; Les Paradis Artificiels--Charles Baudelaire; Marijuana Intoxication: Common Experiences--Charles T. Tart; Marihuana Effects: A Survey of Regul...
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An Address to the Graduating Class of the Medical School in the University at Cambridge [Harvard University] on Wednesday, March 9, 1864

By: Andrew, John A.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: : 1864

Seller ID: 1108

1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv, 28 pp. Soiling to covers, string binding perished, contents complete, pages unmarked, good+. JOHN ALBION ANDREW (1818 – 1867) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politican. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between...
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The Puerperal Diseases, Clinical Lectures Delivered at Bellevue Hospital

By: Barker F

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co. : 1874

Seller ID: 22

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK 19th CENTURY AMERICAN OBSTETRIC TEXT, TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN. 9 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, xiii, 526 pages. Covers and edges soiled and rubbed, spine ends frayed, ink signature of original owner, 'Mohr A. Reany, 1874' across title page, text otherwise unmarked. FROM THE PREFACE: 'For nearly twenty years, it lias been my duty, as well as my privilege, to give clinical lectures at Bellevue Hospital, on midwifery, the puerperal and the other diseases of women. ... I therefore have devoted the vacations of the past two ...
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A Comparative Study of Contemporary White and Negro Standards in Health, Education and Welfare, Charlottesville, Virginia

By: Barksdale, James W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, University of Virginia : 1949

Seller ID: 292

1949 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MASTER'S DEGREE THESIS ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DISPARITIES IN VIRGINIA HEALTH CARE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY. 9 inches tall paper bound thesis for Master of Arts at the University of Virginia, printed cover, many tables. Fine. Excerpts from the book: "In Charlottesville there is only one state tax supported general hospital for both whites and Negroes, the University of Virginia Hospital. The Martha Jefferson, a private hospital, admits only white patients. These two institutions constitute the total general hospital facilities for the City and County. The Martha Jefferson H...
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A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine for the Use of Students and Practitioners

By: Bartholow R

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co. : 1880

Seller ID: 57

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN MEDICAL TEXT. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xvi, 853 pages, original brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Dr. John A. Murphy to front free endpaper, his signature to title page. Illustrated with 46 wood engravings. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Spine ends frayed, corners bumped, library handstamp to fore-edge and title page, library due date slip and pocket at rear. Good condition. ROBERT [aka ROBERTS] BARTHOLOW (November 28, 1831 - May 10, 1904) earned his MD from the University of Maryland in 1852, served as surgeon in the U...
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The French Practice of Medicine: being a translation of L. J. Begin's Treatise on Therapeutics: with occasional notes and observations illustrative of the treatment of diseases in the climate of North America

By: Begin LJ;Tessier X

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, E. Bliss : 1829

Seller ID: 64

RARE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH EARLY 19TH CENTURY TREATISE ON THERAPEUTICS ADAPTED FOR NORTH AMERICAN PHYSICIANS. Two volumes in one, 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, viii, 243; 236 pages, new black cloth boards with paper spine label, very good. Edges of pages darkened and wrinkled, with scattered marginal pencil notations. Signature of Joseph A. Eve, Dec 19th, 18** top of title page, volume 1; signature of Robert C. Eve, 1880 top of Preface. Begin classifies medications in three types: debilitating medications, direct stimulating medications, and revulsive medications. Tessier has added note...
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Insanity and Its Treatment: Lectures on the Treatment, Medical and Legal, of Insane Patients with a summary of the Laws in Force in the United States on the Confinement of the Insane

By: Blandford GF;Ray I

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philaadelphia, Henry C. Lea : 1871

Seller ID: 46

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF 19TH CENTURY PSYCHIATRY TEXT THAT WAS IN PRINT FROM 1871 TO 1892. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, bookplate of Library of University of Cincinnati College of Medicine to front paste-down, gift of Drs. Road, ink signature of G. Road, M.D., front free endpaper, viii, 471 pages, publisher's advertisements end of text, cover edges and spine faded, otherwise very good. GEORGE FIELDING BLANDFORD (1829-1911) became closely associated with Dr. A. J. Sutherland, Physician to St. Luke's Hospital, where his early studies in insanity iwere made. In 1866 h...
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The Evolution of Man

By: Bolsche, Wilhelm

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Co. : 1905

Seller ID: 478

1905 SCARCE TREATISE ON EVOLUTION BY GERMAN SOCIALIST, PUBLISHED BY RADICAL AMERICAN PUBLISHER. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's sky blue cloth binding, blindstamped cover series title Library of Science for the Workers and embossed title and author to cover and spine, floral design endpapers, age-toning to edges, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. WILHELM BOLSCHE (1861 - 1939) was a German author, editor and publicist. Bolsche studied from 1883 to 1885 in Bonn and moved 1885 to Berlin. Although most of his work covers natural history topics, Boel...
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The advancement of medicine by research

By: Bowditch, Henry P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal : 1896

Seller ID: 1025

1896 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK ADDRESS BY HENRY BOWDITCH, EMINENT PHYSIOLOGIST AND DEAN OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. Two journal issues 11 inches tall, Vol. CXXXIV, Nos. 24 and 25, June, 1896, containing an address by Henry P. Bowditch, Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School (continued from issue 24 to 25). Covers age-toned, light soiling, tip of back cover corner torn, overall very good minus. Issue No. 24 also contains a curious misogynistic anecdote titled, An Irate Female: A female medical student, says the Medical Record, who failed at a recent examination in London so effectually ...
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Pediatrics. Devoted to the Diseases of Infants and Children

By: Brown, Dillon (owner) and Carpenter, George (editor)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Van Publishing Co. : 1896 (original publication)

Seller ID: 732

FINE FACSIMILE COLLECTION OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF A SHORT-LIVED PEDIATRIC JOURNAL PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE US AND UK IN 1896. 9 1/2 inches tall black custom screw post binder covered in black pebbled cloth, pictorial book plate to front paste-down Presented by Pet Milk Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, containing facsimile copies of Pediatrics, A Semi-Monthly Journal. Included are Vol. 1 (issues 1, 3, 4-12) and Vol. 2, issue 1. Condition: fine. GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER, M.D. (1859 - 1910) was an English physician and paediatrician. Carpenter syndrome is named for him. He was a medical stu...
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The Sylva Americana; or A Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the United States, Practically and Botanically Considered

By: Browne, D.J.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston, William Hyde & Co. : 1832

Seller ID: 255

LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION EARLY MONOGRAPH ON AMERICAN TREES WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 inches tall hardcover, full calf leather binding, [i]-vii, [viii- List]. [9]- 408 pp., frontis forest scene with deer, 111 wood engravings of leaves throughout text. Dedicated to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Part I, Vegetable physiology; Part II, Dendrology; Part III, Arboriculture; Appendix list of woods and heat generated by combustion; Glossary, Index Latin, English, and provincial names. Cover edges rubbed, spine dulled, endpapers browned, residue from bookplate removed from front paste...
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My Flight to the North Pole

By: Byrd, R. E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, B. G. Teubner : 1931

Seller ID: 876

1931 ABRIDGED ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BYRD'S EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH POLE PUBLISHED FOR GERMAN SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING HITLER'S RISE TO POWER--ANNOTATED IN GERMAN. 7 3/4 inches tall softcover booklet, printed paper covers, frontis map of north pole, 52 pp, 9 photo text figures, covers soiled, spine frayed, tears to edges of title page, marginal notes in German. tissue repair to closed tear p 15. Published in the series Teubners Neusptachliche Lekture fur sechsstufige lehranstalten und die mittelklassen von vollanstalten [Teubner's New Language reading for six-level teaching institut...
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Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities

By: Campbell, Angus and Schuman, Howard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office : 1968

Seller ID: 289

LANDMARK STUDY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS RIOTS OF 1968--PERSONAL COPY OF NOTED SOCIOLOGIST PETER H. ROSSI. SUPPLEMENTAL STUDIES for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, in original black cloth binding with gilt title on cover and spine, viii, 248 pages, COPY OF PETER H. ROSSI., his gilt name on cover, fine. FOREWORD TO SUPPLEMENTAL STUDIES: On March 1, 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders issued its report. In it we said that three supplemental studies were being conducted under the Commission's auspices. The text of ...
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Evolution of Life

By: Chapman, Henry C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co. : 1873

Seller ID: 438

1873 REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATED OVERVIEW OF EVOLUTION PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN PHYSICIAN DURING DARWIN'S LIFETIME. 8 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, spine gilt, Fold-out map frontis showing diffusion of man across the globe, starting from paradise in the Indian Ocean, then to Africa, Asia, Australia, across Bering Straits to Americas. i-vii, 193 pp, 205 figures throughout text drawn from references listed on pp 183-186, double-page plate containing 24 profiles of primates and races of man. PREFACE. Since 1858, the year in which appeared Mr. Darwin's famous book, the literary as well as th...
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The Direction of Human Evolution

By: Conklin, Edwin Grant

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1921

Seller ID: 442

LECTURES BY E.G. CONKLIN, DELIVERED IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 1920, CONTRAST EVOLUTION, SCIENCE AND RELIGION 5 YEARS BEFORE SCOPES TRIAL. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis of busts of 3 prehistoric men, covers and spine darkened, light foxing/soiling to first and last pages, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good minus. EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN (1863 - 1952) was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891-94) and professor of zoology at Northwestern University (1894-96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton University (1...
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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

By: Crumb, Robert

Price: $900.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton : 2009

Seller ID: 1270

2009 SIGNED COPY OF R. CRUMB'S MASTERPIECE, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, WITH SIGNED SERIGRAPH PRINT IN SLIPCASE, COPY 155 OF 250 LIMITED EDITION--NOW TRANSLATED INTO 10 LANGUAGES. 8 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches hardcover, black cloth binding with gilt title, in 9 x 11 1/2 inch black cloth slipcase with color image of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, unpaginated, illustrations, signed book together with signed 8 x 10 inch 9 color serigraph print (by Alex Wood of Wildwood Serigraphs)--unopened in original clear plastic shrink wrap, #155 from edition limited to 250. First published October 2009, R. Crumb...
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Category: America